excellent information here... thanks:tup:

Quick question- When opening up your headlights doing any MOD..AFTERWARDS, dont you need to bake the headlight to seal it again??? Every mod that I have done to headlights I ALWAYS get the moisture creeping back into the light after so long.

Any help or insight is greatly appreciated on this matter. The last thing I want is foggy headlights.

Yes, you will have to re-bake to seal them up again. I also recommend going around the seal with silicone sealant as well. Just be sure to do a nice job around the area that you can see when the hood is up.

would you recommend removing all of the previous sealant and reapplying new sealant?

So how much sealant does it take to re-seal the headlights. Going to reuse the factory sealant, but still want to put on another layer to make sure it's air tight and to prevent any condensation.

great post but its just PITA

can i use plasti-dip instead of paint spray?

Just reseal using the old sealant and make sure all of it actually forms which is where a heat gun would actually be beneficial. Just don't pry. Then after that's sealed as much as you can, go around the top of it with another form of sealant to ensure there won't be any condensation.

How long are we rebaking the second time around? anyone know.. or any experience in doing this?

haha doooooooooooooom

Nothing to worry about sir...:tup:

Following your how to I did mine. Thanks! here is a pic of the final parts of installing them back in:

http://i.imgur.com/6ZYiI.jpg

looks beautiful bro good job!!!

Thanks simota! I'll post some better pictures tomorrow :tup:

Did my blackout today and it looks great but I'm looking to ditch the orange reflectors in the front headlights. What are my options? The silver backing behind the reflectors can stay but I don't want the orange.

A lot of guys from myg37 wrap the reflectors in CF. It looks clean if thats your style.

http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/a...-57-39_751.jpg

http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/a...-58-16_207.jpg

http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/a...-57-24_441.jpg

http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/a...-57-06_598.jpg

I don't like that vinyl wrap at all. Think I'll just deal with the orange.

Cracking those things open is a huge pain in the ***.

I never posted mine which I did over the winter. Decided to leave the reflector orange for a bit of an OEM look....matched the shrouds to the 40th colour.

Funny enough, I baked one, then used a hair dryer on the second, only took 10 minutes longer...not a bad option for those who don't want to bake or disconnect connections


Did not use the night shade
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^^^^ looking great guys..... :tup:

@romulus... u can use night shade on em to make em a darker amber thats what i did..... or just completely black em out

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...x/IMAG0662.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...x/IMAG0668.jpg

:tup: looking good bro

I gotta ask... what is this boiling water method? THAT sounds scary to me lol

lmao... i know it sounds retarded but it actually works....

anyways this is how it works lmao, you boil a **** load of water like maybe 2-3 gallons of water then dump all the hot water in a big ol bucket... not the tall buckets at home depot but like the short wide ones... so when you got all the water in there submerge your headlight, the lens part facing the water and leave it there until it fogs inside... when it fogs you know its hot enough now you can literally pull it apart because the glue is so soft :tup:

ive done this technique to cars usually with glass headlights :tup: when i accidentally cracked the glass headlight of my friend with my heat gun :shakes head: some guy told us use hot water because thats what he uses... i thought he was full of sh!t lol but he was actually right :tup:

These headlights are 1000.04$ OEM... so be a little careful.

per side..... lol

yup :tup: i knew that when i opened her lights up when she was only a month old or 2..... :roflpuke2: actually back then.. at the local stealership they qouted me $1500 per side lol so i knew i couldnt mess up

I'm sooo scared anyone in jersey wanna help lol

Trust me on this one. Pay a shop to to it. My headlight misadventure cost $900


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How much you think they are?

Good thread, I might be trying this.

I would still recommend against doing this yourself unless you are extremely "handy". It is extremely easy to mess your lights up beyond repair.

If I do do it I'll do it this way.:tup:

It shouldn't be if you do it the right way though, which I've found out we didn't. Temp was too high. Safer to go with lower temp and longer time in the oven. I think we were supposed to be around 200-210, but we were doing it at like 250. If we had it at the right temp, we wouldn't have had to put it in lens down.

For reference in case you think it's just me being a klutz (which I am) - a bunch of us in the Mid Atlantic forum thought it'd be a good idea to do this ourselves for fun. Of the 5 sets of headlights we attempted to mod only 1 set came out unscathed.
List of problems we encountered:
-Scorched & melted headlight lenses. It's VERY easy to melt the housings when you're trying to soften the sealant. The damage is very ugly, very visible, and cannot be repaired.
-Broken HID "clips". For some reason, the little metal clip thingy that holds the HID bracket in place is very fragile.
-Busted up HID bulbs
-Constantly running out of daylight. The process is long, time-consuming and messy as hell.

Even so - most of us are college-educated, fairly intelligent people and we had lots of problems.

Well the only real problem was the melting....which was caused by the high temp. The temp we set based on experimental evidence from the previous time we did it and it went smoothly. Seems logical to me. Still don't know why ours melted that day and not the first day.

The thread in here said 250 as well iirc. I checked after we had the first mishap.

The first day was still really fun. Not sure it was worth $900 for the experience though haha.

Last time I talked to Khoi he said we should have been closer to 200.

Well the point is, it's very easy to screw up.